Tuesday, 5 June 2012

Note:
This requires a laptop/server with a serial port. In the absence of a
built-in serial port, a USB to Serial Converter will to the trick!

LOADER Prompt

The
first time the FAS2040A is powered on, and a connection is made via
the console cable to Controller A, the prompt that will appear is:

LOADER-A>

Enter
the following commands after the prompt, to set the filer to autoboot
(so when it reboots next time it does not sit at the LOADER prompt)
and boot into Data ONTAP.

LOADER-A>
setenv AUTOBOOT true

LOADER-A>
boot_ontap

Setup

On
first boot the NetApp filer will automatically boot into setup.

Note
that the setup can be invoked at any time by running the command
setup

FASCTRA>
setup

The
effects of running setup do not apply until reboot, and setup
rewrites the following config files:

/etc/rc

/etc/exports

/etc/hosts

/etc/hosts.equiv

/etc/dgateways

/etc/nsswitch.conf

/etc/resolv.conf

and
saves the original contents of the files in .bak files.

Run
through the setup answering prompts as desired.

Note
on VIFs (virtual interfaces)

A
recommendation is to setup a VIF (virtual interface or IFGRP) with at
least two ethernet ports, which are connected to two different
switches or switch modules on a stacked switch for resilience. Since
this is a FAS2040A, remember to select yes to the option to allow vif
to failover to a HA partner.

"Single-mode
VIFs act like a fault tolerant team and will fail traffic over to a
standby link when the active link goes down. Multi-mode VIFs act like
a group of links providing aggregate bandwidth as well as link
redundancy. Remember VIFs must have different names for failover to
work in a HA setup."

BMC Setup

After running
through the setup, configure the BMC using:

FASCTRA> bmc
setup

And once complete,
reboot the controller with the reboot command

FASCTRA> reboot

Repeat the above
for Controller B. Once we have both BMCs configured, the rest of the
configuration can be done via a PuTTY/SSH client connection to the
BMC IP Address.